Bargain Hunt
| Bargain Hunt | |
|---|---|
| Format | Game Show |
| Created by | BBC |
| Starring | David Dickinson Tim Wonnacott |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| Production | |
| Running time | approx. 30 minutes (per episode) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | |
| Original run | 13 March, 2000 – |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
Bargain Hunt is a daytime television programme on
Format
Two teams (the Reds and the Blues), both made up of two people, are given £300 (originally £200) each. With each accompanied by an antiques trade expert, the two teams each buy three lots of items from bric-a-brac sales and attempt to make their money back (or more) by auctioning them off. The participants keep any profit they make, and since 2004 "golden gavel" trophies are awarded to any team which makes a profit on all three of their items.
History
Originally a daytime show when launched in 2000, it became staple viewing of students and gave host David Dickinson cult status.
A prime-time version was also made (2002-2005), which is similar to the daytime show except that which the teams' budget is increased to £500. It was on the prime time version of the show that a team led by Michael Hogben purchased a Royal Worcester box at Ardingly fair for £140, that made £800 in the live prime time auction - the largest profit ever made on "Bargain Hunt."
When host David Dickinson gave up the daytime show to concentrate on the primetime version, his place was taken by Tim Wonnacott, an antiques expert already well-known to UK viewers as a long-standing expert on The Antiques Roadshow.
In April 2005 it was announced that the primetime version of Bargain Hunt had been axed; however the daytime version is to continue. Reruns of the daytime version (from the Dickinson era) also appear on BBC America.
The show occasionally features well known contestants, for example 'Allo 'Allo! stars Gorden Kaye and Sue Hodge have taken part.
The show marked its 500th daytime edition on 15 October 2007 with an edition in which four of the programme's regular experts made up the two teams, the red team of Phillip Serrell and David Barby (profit £245) easily beating the blue team of Kate Bliss and Charles Hanson (break even).
The show also appears on the Australian Nine Network at 5:00pm weekdays and the Foxtel cable television channel, Lifestyle.
500th Show
On 2007-10-15 the 500th show was broadcast. This show differed from a normal show in that both teams were made up of experts - the red team of David Barby and Philip Serrell (descibed as the "old" team) and the blue team of Kate Bliss and Charles Hanson (described as the "young" team) with the bonus buys being purchased by Tim Wonnacott himself. The teams were given £500 pounds to spend, rather than the usual £300, with any profits going to charities chosen by the team members. The show also featured outtakes and memorable clips from previous shows.[1]
The Experts
- David Barby, Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Fine Arts Division - Auctioneer before starting own valuation business. See external links below.
- Kate Bliss (née Alcock) - consultant for Philip Serrell Auctioneers and Valuers in Herefordshire and Worcestershire
- James Braxton - owns Edgar Horns Auctioneers in Eastbourne and is executive director of Bracketts Fine Art Auctioneers in Royal Tunbridge Wells
- Pippa Deeley - sometimes credited as Philippa Deeley.
- Charles Hanson - former Christies expert who runs his own auction house in Derbyshire
- Paul Hayes - operates as a trade dealer, travelling around the country buying items from the public and selling them to his contacts within the antiques trade. He also has a stall at the Sunday market at Charnock Richards near Preston
- Anita Manning - in 1989 she established Great Western Auctions in Glasgow and became Scotland’s first woman auctioneer
- Adam Partridge - principal auctioneer and valuer at Marshalls Auctioneers of Knutsford, Cheshire were he has worked since 1999
- Thomas Plant - work at Phillips in Bath, and is now an independent valuer and auctioneer at a sale room in Kent
- Philip Serrell - owns Philip Serrell Auctioneers and Valuers in Herefordshire and Worcestershire
- Nigel Smith - trained as a restorer of fine European and oriental ceramics, before starting work as a porter and cataloguer in Manchester, and then moved to Sotheby's as a trainee auctioneer, and then to Phillip's auctioneers in Bath. He now works at Tennant's in Harrogate
- Mark Stacey - senior valuer with Dreweatt Neate Fine Art Auctioneers in Godalming, Surrey
- Elizabeth Talbot - in 1995 she married and moved to East Anglia to take up the position of Senior Auctioneer and Valuer at the Diss Auction Rooms of Thos Wm Gaze & Son. She was made the firm's first female partner in 2000
- Colin Young - a qualified chartered arts and antiques surveyor, he joined the Grantham firm, Golding Young in 1989 and has been principal since 1994
Past Experts
- Dean Goodwin (2000)
- Michael Hogben - his profile removal from the BBC antiques website coincided with him featuring in the ITV programme Dickinson's Real Deal
- Kevin Jackson (2000-5)
- Toby Moy (2000)
- Sally Stratton (2001-2)
- Louise Weir (2000)
References
- ^ "500th Episode". Bargain Hunt. 2007-10-15.
External links
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